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Nov. 15, 1927.

J. E. ZOMNIR MACHINE FOR MAKING CARD MATCHES Filed Oct. 6, 1925 2Sheets-Sheet l .J. E. ZOMNIR MACHINE FOR MAKING CARD MATCHES Filed Oct.6, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 F c7 Nov, 15, 1927.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH E. ZOMNIR, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMONDMATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATIGN OF ILLINOIS.

- MACHINE FOR MAKING- CARD MATCHES.

Application .filed October 6, 1925.

This invention relates to machines whereby cards orstrips of matches foruse in the manufacture of match books are successively produced from aweb of cardboard stock. Such machines include splint cutting devices bymeans of which the alternate splints of each card or strip, While theyare being formed, are staggered or offset in relation to the others in amanner to separate the free ends of adjacent splints and permit theefficient application thereto of the paratiin and head compositions asthe card or strip of splints is being transported through the matchmaking path.

The object of the invention is to provide, in a match machine of thetype mentioned, novel mechanism whereby transverse rows of perforationsare formed at regular intervals in the web of stock preparatory to itspassage to the splint cutting devices, the perforations of each rowbeing so disposed in relation to the cutting devices that the respectivesplints, when formed, are provided at their basal edges with nicks orindentations that facilitate the easy and uniform manual tearing of theindividual splints from the marginal portion of the card or stripwithout appreciably weakening their connection with such portion.

To this end, the invention comprises novel features of construction andcombinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of a portion of amatch ,making machine equipped with perforating means embodying myinvention, only so much of the machine being shown as is necessary toillustrate the invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional detail of the splint cutting dies, as on the line22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a vertically-reciprocative device for formingspaced-apart rows of perforations in the web of match material.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section of a portion of the said device, showinga piece of stock as perforated thereby.

Fig. 5 illustrates a piece of the stock as perforated and incised duringits passage to the carrier of the match machine.

Referring to the drawings, 1.0 designates a Serial No. 60,868.

portion of an intermittently movable endlesscarrier of a match machine,which carrier comprises a chain of links having therein spring clamps 11which are adapted to receive cards or strips of splints A and carry themthrough the match makingcycle.

12 designates the supporting frame on which is mounted a horizontal bed13 between which and the receiving face of the carrier are interposedcomplemental upper and lower dies 14, 15, respectively. The

web of match material, B, is intermittently advanced along the bed andbetween the dies by means of a pair of feed rolls 16.

The upper die, which is carried by a vertically reciprocative head 17,comprises a series of parallel cutter bars 18 extending longitudinallyof the web and having in clined cutting edges; and the lower die, whichis secured to the frame 12, comprises a row of spaced counterpart bars19 arranged in parallelism with and in alternation with the bars 18,whereby during the reciprocation of the head 17 the bars thereof co-actwith the stationary bars to incise the web longitudinally in parallellines, as indicated at C in 5, and form alternate splint sections Dwhich are severed at one end from the web as at E, and downwardlypressed or staggered by the inclined edges of the bars 18. The incisionsterminate short of the leading end of the web to provide a marginalconnecting portion F for the splints, which portion when the web isadvanced to present a succeeding portion thereof to the dies. is enteredinto and gripped by the opposing clamps 11 of the carrier. l Vhen suchsucceeding portion is presented to the dies the web is againlongitudinally incised on splint lines, as indicated at Gr. and at thesame time it is severed on a line H across the outer ends of thepreviously incised portions by a vertically reciprocating transverseblade 20 carried by the upper die 14. thus leaving in the grasp of thecarrier clamps the leading section of the web in the form of a card orstrip of staggered splints having a common base or marginal portion, asseen in Fig. 1. The web-feeding and splint cutting mechanisms being old,require no detailed description herein.

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range in advance of the feed rolls 16 a vertlcally reciprocating memberwh1ch 1s operative, In each dwell of the web, to form a transverse rowof tapering perforations in the web, as indicated at I in Fig. 5. Thismember preferably comprises a steel plate 21 having one of its surfacesdiagonally milled or grooved, asat 22, to provide a series of spacedapart tapering points 23 along the lower edge of the plate. The plate isadjustably secured to a bar 24 by means of bolts 25 passing throughelongated openings 26 in the plate, the ends of which bar are providedwith blocks 27 that are slidably mounted in vertical guide standards 28at the respective sides of the supporting frame. These blocks areflexibly connected by means of links 29 with levers30 which are hung atone end from the supporting frame by means of links 31 and are jointedat their opposite ends to the usualverticallyreciprocating bars 32 thatoperate thecutter head. Hence the perforating plate 21 is reciprocatedconcurrently with the cutter head. A backer bar 3?) for the portion ofthe web pierced by the points 523 is supported on the frame.

By the described construction ofthe perforating plate the taperingpoints thereof can be readily sharpened, as occasion may require, andthe plate can be vertically adjusted on its supporting bar to effect therequisite penetration of the points into the web. l y

The adjacent iierforating points of the plate 21 are spaced apartcorrespondingly with the width of a match splint, and the series ofpoints are in alinement with the longitudinal edges of the respectivecutter bars. The space between two succeeding rows of perforations whenformed in the web is equal to the width of a match card, and theposition of the perforating points in relation to the splint cuttingmechanism is such that each row of perforations defines the basal endsof each row of splints in the web during the descent of the die-head 17.Thus the corners of the basal ends of the descending cutter bars 18carried by said head enter the respective opposing perforations in theweb, which perforations not only prevent the extended tearing of thematerial beyond the ends of the cutting bars, but they form at therespective basal edges of the splints tapering nicks or indentationswhich facilitate the easy and uniform manual separation of the matchesfrom the marginal portion of the card or strip, without weakening theconnection of the splints with such marginal portion to such an extentas to interfere with the efficient impregnating and dipping operations.

I claim- 1. The combinationwith splint cutting mechanism and mechanismfor feeding thereto a web of match stock, of means for formingtransverse rows of perforations at regular intervals in the said webbefore the passage of the web to the cutting mechanism, the perforationsof each row being so disposed in relation to the cutting mechanisn'l asto produce indentations at the respective basal edges of the splintswhen the web is cut by the said cutting mechanism. 1

2. The combination withsplintcutting mechanism and mechanism for feedingthereto a web of match stock, of means for forming transverse rows oftapering perforations at regular intervals in the said web before thepassage of the web to the cutting mechanism, the perforations of eachrow being so disposed in relation to the cutting mechanism as to produceindentations at the respective basal edges of the splints when the webis cut by the said cutting mechanism.

3. The combination with splint-cuttiup, mechanism and mechanism forfeeding thereto a web of match stock, of a vertically reciprocatingmember in advance of the feeding mechanism, a perforating devicesupported by said member and adapted to form in the said web transverserows of perforations at regular intervals, the pcrforations of each rowbeing so disposed in relation to the cutting mechanism as to produceindentations at the respective basal edges of the splints when the webis cut by the said cutting mechanism.

l. The combination with splint-cutting mechanism and mechanism forfeeding thereto a web of match stock, of a "vertically reciprocatingmember. and a web perfoat' ing device supported thereon, said devicecomprising a plate having a face diagonally grooved to provide along thelower edge of the plate a series of spaced-apart tapering points adaptedto form in the web transverse rows of perforations at regular intervals.preparatory to the passage of the perforated portions of the web to thesplint-cutting mechanism, the perforations of each row being so disposedin relation to the cutting mechanism as to produce indentations at therespective basal edges of the splints when the web is cut by the saidcuttingmechanism.

Signed at Springfield inthe county of Hampden and State of Massachusettsthis 30th day of Sept. A. D. 19:25.

JOSEPH E. ZOMNIR.

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